Chapter 55 Chapter 51

The soda smell, like green corn ears, is everywhere in Jiaohuo Academy. In that smell, Sima Lan and his brothers grew up rapidly, and the children of Lan's family, Du's family and Yicun all grew up. Know the world. The adults said let the children come to the operating room one by one to see if they have the courage, they can come to sell leather in the future.The only requirement of the hospital is that no more than three or five children can come in at a time, they cannot speak in the operating room, they must walk lightly when entering the room, and close the door casually.The children did not expect that the operating room could be enjoyable. There were four large pots of charcoal fire in the room, and the glass windows were so bright that they could be used as mirrors.In the golden light, in the middle of the four pots of charcoal fire, a bed was laid out. The bed was thick and warm. Sima Xiaoxiao crawled on the bed, as if he had fallen asleep in the fire. It was covered with a white quilt, but the quilt was still a foreign white cloth, and it was so clean that it was hard to find a speck of dust.Outside the quilt, Sima Xiaoxiao's left thigh was exposed, and the thigh was surrounded by doctors. Some people held white gauze in their hands, and some held foreign porcelain plates in their hands. There were tweezers, scissors and Lingqiao's small pliers.A doctor said let’s start, and the operation began, so the first batch of children were asked to stand under the wall of the room, listening to the sound of the tweezers and scissors colliding in vain, watching the gauze wiped with blood Throw it in a bucket.Because it was Sima Xiaoxiao who was skinned on the bed, and the first batch of five children who went in were his five children of the same height.Sima Sen was at the front, Lin Duan was behind, and Sima Lan was in the middle.When they entered the room, they saw their father crawling in a pile of soft white, the fire was boiling him like blood, the five children suddenly stopped and stood at the door, each face turned pale.Sima looked at the children with a smile, didn't speak, and smiled slightly, and the smile floated on his face for a long time like a yellow fallen leaf.Sima Lan felt cold all over, and her body was shaking loudly, but her clenched hands were hot and sweaty.He didn't dare to look at those doctors, the white of their clothes made him feel like his heart was full of snow.I couldn't see how the doctors' knives were cutting, but Sima Lan remembered that one winter a year ago, when his father Sima smiled and peeled a piece of rabbit skin, he hung the rabbit on a tree, sharpened the kitchen knife, and then The rabbit's belly was opened, and the left hand grabbed the rabbit's fur and lifted the rabbit's skin. The kitchen knife slammed into the seam between the rabbit's skin and the rabbit's meat, and the rabbit's body was separated from the rabbit's skin.He passed through the slits of the white coats where the doctors were crowded together, and saw a knife in the doctor's hand dangling in the air, and saw that the knife was not a kitchen knife, nor a melon knife.The knife was as small as his own finger, as thin as a piece of paper, and the blade seemed to be on the tip of the knife, which was only one finger long, so bright that his eyes would be dazzled by it.He blinked for a while, trying to figure out what the knife looked like, and how to cut human skin, but when he opened his eyes again, a doctor blocked the seam tightly.He clenched his fists tightly and stiffened his ears, and heard the slight sound of the knife moving, as clear and bright as when he himself cut the corn leaves into strips with the knife.However, there is a faint algae smell in Keyejin, but here is a strong blood smell.He felt his legs go weak, as if he was about to collapse on the ground.The father's face buried in the pillow was pale yellow.He saw the thin, bright sallow backside of his father's face, the thread-like tendons beating like elastic elastic ropes.Seeing the sweat on my father's forehead, each one weighed half a catty, hanging there and refusing to fall, the pressure made my father's face deformed.In the daylight passing through the window, the sound of flying dust and stars was as loud as air falling on the ground or hitting the wall or trees. The sound was as startling as lightning and thunder in Sima Lan's ears.Sweat squeezed out of his clenched palms and wet his cotton trousers.He stretched out his hand and wiped his sweat on the cotton trousers. He saw that the faces of his brothers Sen, Lin, and Mu were as pale and sweaty as his father's, but his younger brother Lu was hiding behind them, holding his hand. Covering his eyes, he called out softly, and stuffed his right hand into Sen's hand, and his left hand into Lin's hand, and Sima Sen blocked his head in his arms like an adult, saying Brother Lu is not afraid, it will be over in a while.

Sima raised his head with a smile, and once again set his sights on the bodies of the five children. Five children walked towards him. Sima Sen said, Dad, does it hurt? Sima smiled and said, in the future, you will have to take anesthesia injections after you sell them, and the anesthesia injections will not hurt at all.Then he smiled at the five children again, and said, the needles are expensive without anesthesia, and they can be sold for a few dollars more. The few dollars are used by our family for the New Year. Don’t tell the villagers that Daddy didn’t get anesthesia Needle, sell a few dollars more.

The five children nodded happily to their father. At this time, a doctor came over and said that another baby should come in, and he also said that you can keep your baby, and the pain will be relieved after talking.Sima smiled and left Sima Lan behind, and Sima Sen led the three younger brothers out.Sima smiled and stretched out his hand, took Sima Lan's hand, and said in surprise, Lan Wa, your hands are so cold.He said my hands were sweaty.Sima smiled and said it was cold sweat.Are you afraid?He smiled at his father Sima and bit his lip, letting his chin sink into his neck.Sima smiled and thought for a while, then pulled Sima Lan to the side of the bed, gently pushed a nurse away from the side of the bed, and then pushed Sima Lan into the gap between the bed and the nurse.

Young Sima Lan's eyes were bloodshot with a bang, as if a basin of blood had been poured on his eyes. He froze over the edge of the operating table like a barrel of stakes. He saw that the peeling of the human skin was indeed the same as when his father cut the rabbit skin. The doctor used the thumb and index finger of his left hand to carefully hold the long strip of willow-like skin that had been peeled off his father's leg, and the knife that peeled the feet. Just under the skin, he pulled it into his arms from the outside, carefully, once and for all, as if afraid of breaking the peeled skin.He found that the doctor's hands were not as clumsy as his father's, who used such careless force that he often connected the rabbit meat to the rabbit skin. The doctor mentioned a piece of skin he peeled off, which was as thin as red silk, with no blood stains, only rosy.The blood on my father's leg was not rushing, but it soaked out like a person fell on the ground and just scratched the layer of skin, soaking out a layer of blood beads, like a new brick house wall after a night The sweat was dense, and the nurse dipped the blood drops with white sand. The doctor quickly cut twice under the skin, and the nurse dipped another layer of blood drops.He seemed to close his eyes when he saw the doctor drop the knife, thinking that this was probably the sword god that the villagers often called.He raised his gaze upwards, and saw that the sword god was wearing a big mask, and there was a mole hidden in the forehead lines on his forehead.He began to admire the sword god with moles hidden on his forehead.Taking his eyes off the face of the sword god, the sun just shone on the peeled skin from the head of the bed, and Sima Lan saw that the sun shone through the thin skin, and the bright red pierced his eyes, as if covered with a red cloth. It looks like the scorching sun in summer.He saw a layer of embroidery thread-like nerves bouncing and moving on the silk red leather, like a cobweb being shaken by a gust of wind, and one of his hands was still pinched in his father's big hand.His father's hands were hard and hot, and he felt the calluses on his father's hands cutting him like a knife.He really wanted to feel the pain of his father being skinned from his father's hand, but that hand was neither cold nor trembling, which made his trembling hand stop when it was in his father's hand, and no longer trembled. .He took half a step back from under the doctor's legs, and saw that the sweat on his father's face had fallen, and the sallow color had also become lighter. He said, Dad, it really doesn't hurt?

Sima smiled and said, the pain went numb for a while, and then it didn't hurt at all. He said, boys will come to sell leather when they grow up? Sima smiled and said that the family would have pocket money for two years after selling the leather once.You can marry a daughter-in-law once you sell it once. He said, can't you sell it? Sima smiled and said, you don't even dare to sell your skin, whose daughter would marry you? You don't even dare to sell your skin, so the thought of dying before you are forty doesn't scare you to death day by day .He also said that Lan Wa'er, it takes half a day to sell the skin, but this bark is the same as tree bark. After cutting and selling it, apply some medicine and put a few layers of chicken skin on it, and it will grow again in ten and a half months. When it grows up, sometimes it grows well, and it can still look the same as before, and it can be sold a second time.But then you have to lie on the bed and don't move, don't let the wound get wet and dirty, so that you can't fall asleep on the bed like a woman in confinement.

Sima Lan withdrew his hand from his father's, wiped his sweat with his hands, and said, "Father, I still don't dare to sell." Sima smiled and said, you will dare to sell it after another ten years. He said, I really dare not sell. Sima smiled and said, do you want to be the village head when you grow up? He said that I don't know if I want to be the village chief. Sima smiled and said, if you think about it, you have to not be afraid of selling leather. Your grandfather became the village chief because he dared to sell leather.It's a pity that I was still young when your grandfather died, so I didn't take the village chief.

Sima smiled and said, once you sell the skins, you can buy whatever you want in the city.When I meet a good customer, for example, his family is very rich, and his child’s face is burnt, and he will give you as much as you want. At that time, you sold a piece of two inches square, which was as big as your palm, which was about the same size. It can buy all of a department store in the city. Sima Lan looked at his father's face, thought for a while and said, I just want to eat a bowl of steamed mutton, and I'll just eat the one in front of the hospital. Sima smiled and said, once you sell it, you can buy him ten pots of mutton steamed buns.

He said, I also want to buy a pair of foreign socks to wear. Sima smiled and said, you can buy a dozen foreign socks to wear. He said, buy another handful of red and blue jelly beans, and a handful of sesame candies from the city. Sima smiled and said, you can buy ten catties of jelly beans, and you can’t finish eating them for five years. If you eat them, your teeth will hurt, and you will never eat them again; you can buy a basket of sesame candies, eat them The upper and lower teeth are stuck together, and the mouth cannot be opened. There was a pink smile on Sima Lan's face, and she found that Du Bo, Zhu Cui, Liu Gen, and Yang Gen had entered the operating room at some time, and stood where they had come in and stood, each with a look of shock on their faces. , Sweat flowed endlessly on his forehead.He walked past his father, holding Liu Gen's hand like his father was holding him, saying that the pain would be gone if it hurt so much, and he could buy whatever he wanted in the city once he sold it.

He took Du Zhuang's hand and said that it didn't hurt, and he could buy a department store stall once he sold it. He took Du Bo's hand and said that you don't have a pen for writing, and the pen you buy once sold can last you a lifetime. When he went to grab Zhucui's hand, he stretched out his hand, but then retracted it.He said that when I come to sell the skins, I will buy a bowl of haggis for Shishi, and at most a bowl of sheep intestine soup for you. Zhucui went out crying. After the next baby came in, Sima Lan's face was full of excitement, as if he had just stepped off the operating bed after a piece of skin was cut off, and he repeated what he had said to the children again.At the end when the daughters of Lan's family squeezed in together, he not only said that again, but also took Lan Shi's hand and pulled Lan Shi to the side of the operating bed, pointing at his father's sleepy face , Say look, doesn't it hurt?Pointing to the thin skin like a persimmon leaf lifted by the doctor's left hand, he said, look, it's like silk.

Pointing to the forehead of Doctor Dao Shen, he said, look, there is a mole there. Pointing to the half bucket of bloody gauze on the ground, he said, look, some of the gauze was thrown away without blood on it, and it can be used as a jacket lining when it is brought back to the village. Pointing to the sweat on Forty's forehead, crawling on her ears, and said to see how scared you are, I am not afraid at all, we will get married when we grow up, and I will sell the skin when we become kisses, what do you want? Buy you anything, foreign floral cloth, foreign socks, cream, foreign soap, chemical clips, you can buy whatever you want.Zhucui, I won't buy anything she wants, at most she will come and buy her a bowl of mutton intestine soup.